Word: impacting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...larger areas of experience than those of mortals, and with a kind of wintry" courage that is not mere passive resignation. Moore's rhythms are those of earth itself." Noninitiates might retort that Moore's sculptures look more subhuman than superhuman. Granting its plastic power-its dramatic impact as a shape-his Draped Reclining Figure sadly lacks the sympathy with which Blake portrayed all human beings. It is like a lump trying to shake off a nightmare, and perhaps rise to human nature...
Gibb is an expert in history from pre-Islamic times to the present Middle East. His special field is the impact of the West on Arab society. "Sir Gibb knows the Near East intimately, including all the men thrown in prison during the recent turnovers of the governments there." William Thomson, professor of Arabic, emeritus, a friend and colleague commented yesterday...
During the recent election campaign, Republican politicians (led by Vice President Richard Nixon) repeatedly argued that President Eisenhower "got us out of war and kept us out of war." Few U.S. voters got the full impact of the words. Twice this year the general in the White House, in agonizingly difficult personal decisions, quite literally kept the U.S. out of a shooting war. In the final weeks before the fall of Dienbienphu and, again, when an invasion of Quemoy Island seemed imminent, the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended that the U.S. roll back Communist pressure by bombing every worthwhile military...
...America at peace," said Ike. "We have a prosperous America. We have an America whose government is honest and efficient . . . I believe the overwhelming majority of the American people want this kind of progress to continue. Although the presidency is not at stake, this election will have a heavy impact on the future of all our people...
...from the Taft-Hartley Act (TIME, July 26), the National Labor Relations Board last week split on where the line should be drawn. Last summer, when NLRB first announced that it would narrow its jurisdiction to exclude small retailers, utility companies, etc., and concentrate on companies having an important impact on interstate commerce, there was no dissent. But when NLRB last week showed what it meant by turning down six of eight union requests for federal supervision of bargaining elections,* the decision divided the five-man board on straight party lines. Board Member Abe Murdock, former Democratic Senator, charged that...